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... Ganges River . The Sakta , Śaiva and Vaiṣṇava cults have all sought to include this sacred place within their own corpus of sites . It is listed as a Sākta pīțha in the Bṛhan- Nilatantra and the Prāṇatoṣanī Tantra ( Sircar 1973 : 84 ) ...
... Ganges River . The Sakta , Śaiva and Vaiṣṇava cults have all sought to include this sacred place within their own corpus of sites . It is listed as a Sākta pīțha in the Bṛhan- Nilatantra and the Prāṇatoṣanī Tantra ( Sircar 1973 : 84 ) ...
Page 94
... Ganges water from the Ganges to Tarakeswar , now so closely associated with this shrine , in order to duplicate , and thus compete with , the other great Śaiva - kşetra of eastern India - Vaidyanatha - dhāma , Bihar - where water is ...
... Ganges water from the Ganges to Tarakeswar , now so closely associated with this shrine , in order to duplicate , and thus compete with , the other great Śaiva - kşetra of eastern India - Vaidyanatha - dhāma , Bihar - where water is ...
Page 128
... Ganges in most references , frequently being depicted in iconography with the river spouting from his sacred locks , the Vaisnavas maintain that the Ganges flows from the feet of Kṛṣṇa , and so is a river of caraṇāmṛta ( cf. Tirtha 1947 ...
... Ganges in most references , frequently being depicted in iconography with the river spouting from his sacred locks , the Vaisnavas maintain that the Ganges flows from the feet of Kṛṣṇa , and so is a river of caraṇāmṛta ( cf. Tirtha 1947 ...
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The Gauramandala conceived as lotus 2 VästupuruşamandalaThe temple as puruşa Plates between pages 104 and 105 | 1 |
a Goswamy and his CaitanyaViṣṇupriya shrine | 2 |
GauraNitãi Caitanya and Nityananda | 3 |
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activities Advaitic ākhāḍās ascetics aspects Āśrama association avatāra Bābā Bakreswar Bārī bathing behaviour Benares bhakti Bharamalla bhoga Birbhum body Brahman Burdwan Caitanya Calcutta caste cent cremation ground cult culture darśana deity devotion dharnă dharnā-jātris District divine earthly festival Gajan Ganges Ganguly Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas Gauranga Mandira Giri goddess Gosvāmin Goswamys guru Hindu Hinduism holy Hooghly District important India individual institution jātris journey Kālī kirtana Kṛṣṇa līlā linga located mahanta mantra matha Māyā Mayapur Muslim Navadvip number of pilgrims offering perform pilgrimage centre pilgrimage tradition pilgrims pīṭhas place of pilgrimage popular practices prasāda priests pūjā Purāņa purohit Rādhā religious ritual river sacred places sacrifice sadhus Śākta Sākta pithas Śakti Samāj sannyāsis Sanskrit sect shrine siddhis Śiva śmaśāna social songs spiritual Śrī Kṛṣṇa symbolic Tantric Tārā Tarakeswar Tāraknatha Tarapith temple tion tirtha town Vaiṣṇava Vāmā Vāmākhepā Vasistha village visited vows Vṛndāvana West Bengal worship